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Spotify under fire?

By On November 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Spotify opened it’s business in America this year, primarily to major applause and kudos. I’ve been particularly interested in the service and have been using it actively for 3-4 months now. Quite frankly, I love it.

But, many labels (mostly indie) have walked away from the service crying foul of the difficult to understand [...]

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Stanton Moore = Unbelievable

By On September 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I’ve been a fan of Stanton’s for a while now, his resume to those that know him is well known. Founding member of Galactic, leader of the Stanton Moore Trio, session great and master clinician. Also, he is a favorite son of the great city of New Orleans and is considered [...]

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Spotify spreading its wings

By On August 31, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I’m seemingly obsessed with Spotify, I know. Today comes news that the service is adding a new service to it’s API library. This update will surface the 15 million (+) songs on the service through the API library to iOS developers.

One can now assume that there will be a litany of new [...]

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Jazzed about Spotify

By On July 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I’ve been following the chatter around Spotify for a while now. Rumblings have been on the web for a few months now. Lots of interesting chatter too regarding this so called “perfect business model for music”.

And so, as someone that worked in the music business for 15 years and has been [...]

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What would you pay to go your own way?

By On May 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Was having an interesting conversation with a colleague at work regarding entertainment distribution platforms (music, film, tv) and the growing trend of services providing premium offerings based on choice.

Today came word of HBOgo reaching 1 million downloads in less than a week of availability (

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I can’t feel sorry. Sorry.

By On February 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

This week, Warner Music Group announced that it lost $18 MILLION (that’s meeeeeelion) dollars over the last 3 months of 2010. Additionally, information was disclosed that the loss comes from the company’s declining stock value, which allegedly fell by 12 cents in the period. To further bottom out the news, WMG’s revenue decreased [...]

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Too many good ones gone

By On February 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Each of us has the privilege of experiencing many things. Great feats of wonderment, sad episodes of….well, just things we don’t enjoy too much. And then for us musically inclined folks and or just plain old fans of good music, we get to witness things that just take our breath away. Even more tragic is [...]

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The major label way….no thanks

By On September 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment

This past week, a judge in New York City ruled on BEHALF of UMG/Vivendi in regards to a suit brought on by the estate of Bob Marley who sought to claim ownership of the reggae legend’s most famous recordings. Original article is here and here is part of the official blurb from the [...]

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A “Virgin” death

By On March 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Last week, there was a lot of coverage regarding two major Virgin Megastore closures in NYC and San Francisco.

Today in an article posted at Rolling Stone’s site comes word that ALL of their stores are closing including the LA store.

I used to live up the street from the LA store and [...]

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Sirius in serious trouble

By On February 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The global economic issues are claiming businesses left and right.

Not immune are companies that once appeared to be untouchable.
But lo and behold, even after Sirius and XM merged, Sirius is apparently on the verge of going belly up.

According to this article in Rolling Stone today the debt is overwhelming [...]

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